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Trade between these two countries date back to 500 CE. From this trade partnership cultural practices and ideas were learnt and adopted by the Khmer
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The Khmer Empire is an empire that was created in South-east Asia, it fell in the seventeen hundreds
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Jayavarman II unifies small states and creates the Khmer Empire. The Capital is in Angkor
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Jayavarman II enthroned as a devaraja (god-king)
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Khmer Empire expands and Angkor Wat has began being built. Buddhism becomes more important in the Empire
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Jayavarman VII defeats the Chams and expands the empire to the furthest extent and incorporates new lands that would be present-day Laos, Burma and Thailand
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Jayavarman VII renounces Buddhism and orders Buddhist temples and images be destroyed. He then announces that Hinduism is the main religion
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Buddhism grows in importance and becomes the main religion of the Khmer kings
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Thai army attacks Angkor
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Khmers abandon Angkor. Over subsequent centuries, the jungle grows around and over Angkor and it is forgotten
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Khmer rulers relocate the capital to Phnom Penh
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The Siamese King (Thai) attacks and defeats the Khmer king
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Vietnamese armies repeatedly attack Khmer forces. They end up defeating the Khmer and the modern borders of Cambodia are determined